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Myklatun, A. ; Lauri, A. ; Eder, S.H.K.* ; Cappetta, M. ; Shcherbakov, D.* ; Wurst, W. ; Winklhofer, M.* ; Westmeyer, G.G.

Zebrafish and medaka offer insights into the neurobehavioral correlates of vertebrate magnetoreception.

Nat. Commun. 9:802 (2018)
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An impediment to a mechanistic understanding of how some species sense the geomagnetic field ("magnetoreception") is the lack of vertebrate genetic models that exhibit well-characterized magnetoreceptive behavior and are amenable to whole-brain analysis. We investigated the genetic model organisms zebrafish and medaka, whose young stages are transparent and optically accessible. In an unfamiliar environment, adult fish orient according to the directional change of a magnetic field even in darkness. To enable experiments also in juveniles, we applied slowly oscillating magnetic fields, aimed at generating conflicting sensory inputs during exploratory behavior. Medaka (but not zebrafish) increase their locomotor activity in this assay. Complementary brain activity mapping reveals neuronal activation in the lateral hindbrain during magnetic stimulation. These comparative data support magnetoreception in teleosts, provide evidence for a light-independent mechanism, and demonstrate the usefulness of zebrafish and medaka as genetic vertebrate models for studying the biophysical and neuronal mechanisms underlying magnetoreception.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Schlagwörter Magnetic Compass Orientation; Radical-pair Mechanism; Loggerhead Sea-turtles; Subterranean Rodent; Migratory Birds; European Robins; Field Detection; Spiny Lobsters; Coil Systems; Brain-stem
Sprache englisch
Veröffentlichungsjahr 2018
HGF-Berichtsjahr 2018
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2041-1723
e-ISSN 2041-1723
Zeitschrift Nature Communications
Quellenangaben Band: 9, Heft: 1, Seiten: , Artikelnummer: 802 Supplement: ,
Verlag Nature Publishing Group
Verlagsort London
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
POF Topic(s) 30505 - New Technologies for Biomedical Discoveries
30205 - Bioengineering and Digital Health
30204 - Cell Programming and Repair
Forschungsfeld(er) Enabling and Novel Technologies
Genetics and Epidemiology
PSP-Element(e) G-552000-001
G-505592-001
G-500500-001
Scopus ID 85042538581
PubMed ID 29476093
Erfassungsdatum 2018-03-05